I wrote this little macro today that lets you do it. However, I feel like it was implemented in a pattern match library or something... but I'm not sure. Someone let me know if I'm re-inventing the wheel.
If I'm not, here's the code: (defn re-bind-fn [str re bnds act & forms] `(let [~'__TEMP__ (re-find ~re ~str) ~bnds ~'__TEMP__] (if ~'__TEMP__ ~act ~(if (empty? forms) nil (apply re-bind-fn str forms))))) (defmacro re-bind [str re bnds act & forms] (apply re-bind-fn str re bnds act forms)) You can do things like this: (defn msg-parse [s] (re-bind s #"HELLO (\w+)" [_ nme] (println "Hello message for " nme) #"COORDS (\d+) (\d+)" [_ x y] (println "Coords: (" x ", " y ")") #".*" _ (println "unimportant"))) cons-irc.util> (msg-parse "COORDS 123 456") Coords: ( 123 , 456 ) nil cons-irc.util> (msg-parse "HELLO Kaylen") Hello message for Kaylen nil cons-irc.util> (msg-parse "fdsfsd") unimportant nil -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.